tailieunhanh - LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA CÁC TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC –The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10

The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Black Tulip ALEXANDRE DUMAS CHAPTER 10 10. The Jailer s Daughter On the same evening Gryphus as he brought the prisoner his mess slipped on the damp flags whilst opening the door of the cell and fell in the attempt to steady himself on his hand but as it was turned the wrong way he broke his arm just above the wrist. Cornelius rushed forward towards the jailer but Gryphus who was not yet aware of the serious nature of his injury called out to him -- It is nothing don t you stir. He then tried to support himself on his arm but the bone gave way then only he felt the pain and uttered a cry. When he became aware that his arm was broken this man so harsh to others fell swooning on the threshold where he remained motionless and cold as if dead. During all this time the door of the cell stood open and Cornelius found himself almost free. But the thought never entered his mind of profiting by this accident he had seen from the manner in which the arm was bent and from the noise it made in bending that the bone was fractured and that the patient must be in great pain and now he thought of nothing else but of administering relief to the sufferer however little benevolent the man had shown himself during their short interview. At the noise of Gryphus s fall and at the cry which escaped him a hasty step was heard on the staircase and immediately after a lovely apparition presented itself to the eyes of Cornelius. It was the beautiful young Frisian who seeing her father stretched on the ground and the prisoner bending over him uttered a faint cry as in the first fright she thought Gryphus whose brutality she well knew had fallen in consequence of a struggle between him and the prisoner. Cornelius understood what was passing in the mind of the girl at the very moment when the suspicion arose in her heart. But one moment told her the true state of the case and ashamed of her first thoughts she cast her beautiful eyes wet with tears on the young man and said to him -- I beg .